Tag: JEFFERSON COUNTY

Patron Past Stories

Amazing glimpse of train travel in 1874 as Dr. Connerly set out to secure items for a Free school

This letter from Professor Connerly to the editors of the Birmingham Iron Age newspaper has been transcribed from the Birmingham Iron Age April 16,…

Patron Past Stories

On Aug 6, 1879 – 30,000 people from Memphis fled from an epidemic – some were put off in the woods rather than allow entrance into Alabama

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Arlington – the only antebellum house left in Birmingham has ties to the city’s founders. [photographs & film]

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